The landmark guide to good composition, "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk and E.B. White (first issued back in 1935) takes up only 85 pages, yet lays out most of what a good writer needs to know.
Active verbs in the present tense make your prose clearer and more engaging. We live in the present and tend to more pay attention to sentences that live where we do. Helper verbs water down meaning and weaken meaning.
"The habitual use of the active voice makes for forcible writing.
This is true not only in narrative, but in writing of any kind."
This is true not only in narrative, but in writing of any kind."
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